'Go back to your country': Immigrants allege physical and racist abuse at Florida detention facility

The federal government has been slapped with another civil rights complaint alleging abuses against immigrants in U.S. custody, this time at a facility in Florida. More than a dozen people either currently or formerly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Baker County Detention Center (Baker) say in the complaint that they were subject to “frequent” physical and verbal abuse, including arbitrary punishment and racist harassment.

Specifically, the civil right complaint states that Baker staff have hurled the n-word at Black migrants, and told them that if they dislike their treatment at the facility, they should “go back where you came from,” and “go back to your country.” The complaint states that one migrant tried to report this racist abuse four times to ICE’s reporting line, “but he has not received a response.”

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